Herodotus, tr., with notes, by W. Beloe, Volym 21821 |
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... He greatly oppressed his subjects by his avarice and ex- tortions he amassed in gold and silver four hundred thousand talents ; a most incredible sum . - Larcher . nected with his palace by a wall . The man 28 EUTERPE .
... He greatly oppressed his subjects by his avarice and ex- tortions he amassed in gold and silver four hundred thousand talents ; a most incredible sum . - Larcher . nected with his palace by a wall . The man 28 EUTERPE .
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... thousand years . But the attempt is partial and unavailing ; and it is with a more philosophic spirit that Mahomet relies on the omnipotence of the Creator , whose word can reanimate the breathless clay , and collect the innumerable ...
... thousand years . But the attempt is partial and unavailing ; and it is with a more philosophic spirit that Mahomet relies on the omnipotence of the Creator , whose word can reanimate the breathless clay , and collect the innumerable ...
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... thousand men were ployed , who were relieved every three months . Ten years were consumed in the hard labour of forming the road , through which these stones were to be drawn ; a work , in my estimation , of no less fatigue and ...
... thousand men were ployed , who were relieved every three months . Ten years were consumed in the hard labour of forming the road , through which these stones were to be drawn ; a work , in my estimation , of no less fatigue and ...
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... thousand yards in length , and twenty feet wide , built of hewn stone . The length of it agreeing so well with the account of Herodotus , is a strong confirmation that this causeway has been kept up ever since , though some of the ...
... thousand yards in length , and twenty feet wide , built of hewn stone . The length of it agreeing so well with the account of Herodotus , is a strong confirmation that this causeway has been kept up ever since , though some of the ...
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... thousand six hundred talents . If this be true , how much more must it have necessarily cost for iron tools , food , and clothes for the workmen , particularly when we consider the length of time they were employed on the building ...
... thousand six hundred talents . If this be true , how much more must it have necessarily cost for iron tools , food , and clothes for the workmen , particularly when we consider the length of time they were employed on the building ...
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according Ægypt Ægyptians Æsop affirm afterwards Amasis amongst ancient Apollo appears Apries Arabian Aristeas army Asia asserted Athenæus authority Babylon Babylonians body brother called Cambyses camels chap circumstance Croesus cubits custom Cyrus Darius daughter death deity Democedes Diodorus Siculus divine Egypt erected Ethiopians father feet gold Greece Greeks Gulph Hercules Herodotus Homer honour horse hundred Hyperboreans Ichthyophagi Indians inhabitants island Issedones king Lacedæmonians lake Larcher learned length Mæandrius magi magus Major Rennell means Memphis mentioned nations never Nile observed opinion oracle Otanes passage Pausanias Periander Persians person Phoenicians Pliny Plutarch Polycrates present Prexaspes priests prince probably Psammitichus pyramid reader reign remarks river sacred Samians Samos satrapy says Scythians seems seen sent Sesostris Smerdis soon speak stone Strabo supposed Syloson talents temple thians thing thousand tion vessel voyage whilst Zopyrus
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Sida 138 - O! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Sida 337 - I am, and none else beside me ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children :" but these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children...
Sida 436 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Sida 263 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Sida 32 - In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
Sida 32 - Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. 5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Sida 152 - You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters...
Sida 5 - And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
Sida 194 - Fortune, that with malicious joy Does Man, her slave, oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleased to bless ; Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away; The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd ; Content with poverty my soul I arm, And Virtue,...
Sida 101 - And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD.